linux-toradex.git/Documentation/features, branch v4.10-rc7

Merge tag 'arc-4.10-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc

2016-12-23T18:22:47+00:00

Pull more ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:

 - Fix for aliasing VIPT dcache in old ARC700 cores

 - micro-optimization in ARC700 ProtV handler

 - Enable SG_CHAIN  [Vladimir]

 - ARC HS38 core intc default to prio 1

* tag 'arc-4.10-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
  ARC: mm: arc700: Don't assume 2 colours for aliasing VIPT dcache
  ARC: mm: No need to save cache version in @cpuinfo
  ARC: enable SG chaining
  ARCv2: intc: default all interrupts to priority 1
  ARCv2: entry: document intr disable in hard isr
  ARC: ARCompact entry: elide re-reading ECR in ProtV handler

ARC: enable SG chaining

2016-12-19T02:45:32+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

xtensa: update DMA-related Documentation/features entries

2016-12-15T18:41:51+00:00

xtensa supports DMA API debug and contiguous DMA, mark it as such.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov

Documentation: MIPS supports HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API

2016-10-13T15:19:19+00:00

This should have been part of 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.').

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Fixes: 40e084a506eb ("MIPS: Add uprobes support.")
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14392/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

powerpc: Add HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP support

2016-05-11T11:54:05+00:00

With perf regs support enabled for powerpc, in commit ed4a4ef85cf5
("powerpc/perf: Add support for sampling interrupt register state"),
the support for obtaining perf user stack dump is already enabled. This
patch declares the support for same and also updates documentation to
mark the support for perf-regs and perf-stackdump.

Signed-off-by: Chandan Kumar 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2016-03-18T03:03:47+00:00

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Here are the main arm64 updates for 4.6.  There are some relatively
  intrusive changes to support KASLR, the reworking of the kernel
  virtual memory layout and initial page table creation.

  Summary:

   - Initial page table creation reworked to avoid breaking large block
     mappings (huge pages) into smaller ones.  The ARM architecture
     requires break-before-make in such cases to avoid TLB conflicts but
     that's not always possible on live page tables

   - Kernel virtual memory layout: the kernel image is no longer linked
     to the bottom of the linear mapping (PAGE_OFFSET) but at the bottom
     of the vmalloc space, allowing the kernel to be loaded (nearly)
     anywhere in physical RAM

   - Kernel ASLR: position independent kernel Image and modules being
     randomly mapped in the vmalloc space with the randomness is
     provided by UEFI (efi_get_random_bytes() patches merged via the
     arm64 tree, acked by Matt Fleming)

   - Implement relative exception tables for arm64, required by KASLR
     (initial code for ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE added to lib/extable.c
     but actual x86 conversion to deferred to 4.7 because of the merge
     dependencies)

   - Support for the User Access Override feature of ARMv8.2: this
     allows uaccess functions (get_user etc.) to be implemented using
     LDTR/STTR instructions.  Such instructions, when run by the kernel,
     perform unprivileged accesses adding an extra level of protection.
     The set_fs() macro is used to "upgrade" such instruction to
     privileged accesses via the UAO bit

   - Half-precision floating point support (part of ARMv8.2)

   - Optimisations for CPUs with or without a hardware prefetcher (using
     run-time code patching)

   - copy_page performance improvement to deal with 128 bytes at a time

   - Sanity checks on the CPU capabilities (via CPUID) to prevent
     incompatible secondary CPUs from being brought up (e.g.  weird
     big.LITTLE configurations)

   - valid_user_regs() reworked for better sanity check of the
     sigcontext information (restored pstate information)

   - ACPI parking protocol implementation

   - CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA enabled by default

   - VDSO code marked as read-only

   - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support

   - ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL enabled

   - Erratum workaround Cavium ThunderX SoC

   - set_pte_at() fix for PROT_NONE mappings

   - Code clean-ups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (99 commits)
  arm64: kasan: Fix zero shadow mapping overriding kernel image shadow
  arm64: kasan: Use actual memory node when populating the kernel image shadow
  arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission
  arm64: Fix misspellings in comments.
  arm64: efi: add missing frame pointer assignment
  arm64: make mrs_s prefixing implicit in read_cpuid
  arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default
  arm64: Rework valid_user_regs
  arm64: mm: check at build time that PAGE_OFFSET divides the VA space evenly
  arm64: KVM: Move kvm_call_hyp back to its original localtion
  arm64: mm: treat memstart_addr as a signed quantity
  arm64: mm: list kernel sections in order
  arm64: lse: deal with clobbered IP registers after branch via PLT
  arm64: mm: dump: Use VA_START directly instead of private LOWEST_ADDR
  arm64: kconfig: add submenu for 8.2 architectural features
  arm64: kernel: acpi: fix ioremap in ACPI parking protocol cpu_postboot
  arm64: Add support for Half precision floating point
  arm64: Remove fixmap include fragility
  arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 27456
  arm64: mm: Mark .rodata as RO
  ...

arm64: add support for ioremap() block mappings

2016-02-18T18:16:16+00:00

This wires up the existing generic huge-vmap feature, which allows
ioremap() to use PMD or PUD sized block mappings. It also adds support
to the unmap path for dealing with block mappings, which will allow us
to unmap the __init region using unmap_kernel_range() in a subsequent
patch.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

Remove "arch" usage in Documentation/features/list-arch.sh

2016-01-26T22:19:08+00:00

Commit 669f6f96c680a741257ada44a28b580df2e1fc25 introduced
the script list-arch.sh, which uses the command "arch":

ARCH=${1:-$(arch | sed 's/x86_64/x86/' | sed 's/i386/x86/')}

It turns out that the "arch" command does not exist in my system (arch
distro). Google found man pages which say "arch is deprecated command since
release util-linux 2.13. Use uname -m" (util-linux 2.13 was released in 2007).
I also found a debian bug reporting the lack of arch and being told to use
uname -m https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446023

But then, why it works in some distros? Apparently coreutils gained an
optional arch command that needs to be explicitly enabled during compilation.
Some distros enable it, others don't. Sigh.

Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation

2016-01-21T01:09:18+00:00

Move the generic implementation to  now that all
architectures support it and remove the HAVE_DMA_ATTR Kconfig symbol now
that everyone supports them.

[valentinrothberg@gmail.com: remove leftovers in Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: James Hogan 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: Koichi Yasutake 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Steven Miao 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Sebastian Ott 
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs

2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00

With new refcounting we don't need to mark PMDs splitting.  Let's drop
code to handle this.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Tested-by: Sasha Levin 
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Steve Capper 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds